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Does it make sense to have a bunch of modals replace tooltips?
Does it make sense to have a bunch of modals replace tooltips? Let's say instead of tooltip, you had white modals appear with text and buttons that look like the MUI card element, and you could also ...
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Does teasing a digital product increase or decrease conversion?
We built a SaaS that takes product serial numbers from users and generates codes from them that users pay for - these codes are used to unlock functionality in those products and so have real-world ...
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Mixed past and future events in one list?
tldr:
Has anyone ever seen a list of date-specific items, sorted by "distance from today" regardless of whether they're past or future?
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I have a page showing two lists of online ...
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How do you attract the attention of a user if you want them to click a button, or look at an ui element like a checkbox?
Let's say you have a side panel that's a bit more complex than this, and you have a button called "Fill in with sample data", "Use recommended filters" or "Use AI-generated ...
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How to indicate disabled list items in a list with alternating backgrounds?
I have a table of search results that have alternating grey and white backgrounds that, on it's own, look quite pleasant in my opinion:
Now, the user also has the option to unselect items by clicking ...
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Hide/Unhide Tabs based on Input field (dropdown may be)
Is there any research for HIDING/UNHIDING Tabs in a page using an input field? I am not sure if it is a good User Experience and Usability.
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Too many tabs - different ui layout?
I'm designing a website and I have a problem with too many tabs. The website has information on 18 different box diets (each has its own price list). On the price list subpage, I want to show a price ...
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How to visually indicate that anonymous user profile is non-clickable?
In our classified advertising website we have user profiles. You can click on a seller's profile (Pic, name, registration date) and see what they are selling.
We also have an anonymous way to publish ...
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Do you need an "All" filter for chips?
Im using a filter system that involves using chips to filter by category. You can only select one chip at a time. Does it make sense to have an "all" filter, or to allow the user to deselect ...
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Findability test and the length of time it takes for a user to find an icon
At a company I work for we want to find out how much time our users would need to find a specific icon in our UI. To accomplish this we plan to conduct a "Time to locate test" with users who ...
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Logout button: Hide or disable?
We have an iOS app. Before you can do anything with the app, you have at first come past a login screen.
There is alwatys a menu, even on the login screen, in this menu you can log out of the app (but ...
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Radio Selection before search
Context
Allowing users to search for any particular job based on multiple parameters.
Feedback needed
I've designed this application search component, which will have a default selection and the user ...
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Should modals have a route?
We use modal dialogs in our web application for actions such as deleting or creating an entity. These modals could be rendered as "on page actions", which are stateful and relative to the ...
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Recruiting users new to the website for a user testing
What is your approach to recruiting users new to the website for user testing?
We have pretty decent traffic on our website. The website is simple, there are several landing pages and an embedded ...
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What is the best practice for designing apps for 320px wide?
I'm worried about my content placement on narrow screens.
Should I shrink my fontsize for iPhone SE, for example? Specially when iOS keyboard is so big on 320px small screens.
My layout in Figma is ...
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What to do when the record has been edited by another user (aka "optimistic locking conflict")
Optimistic locking is the go-to solution if your backend is stateless (e.g. REST) and/or editing conflicts are rare. In a nutshell, the idea is to allow concurrent access to a resource, but, upon ...
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Component Library
I'm a UX Designer and want to know at what point in my project should I start building my component library? Before I wireframe, during or after.
I think it would be easier to start whilst I'm ...
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Toggle button description when each toggle does somtehing different?
So I have three toggle buttons, disabled, enabled, and emergency only. For the scope of this question, its not important what this toggle button does, but more the fact that each toggle has a slightly ...
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Checkout as a guest for an existing user
I am working on a checkout flow and wonder how to handle an existing customer who has faced a password issue and decided to check out as a guest. When entering an existing email in the guest fields, ...
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Button interaction inside table
I'm working on a table redesign and when it was first created they didn't have the design and experience in mind.
Right now, the table is a listing of products and there's a button inside the table ...
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How to incorporate a rating scale and an alert setting onto the same scale?
I am currently trying to design an app and part of the app is being able to monitor data and set alerts when the data reaches a certain point. There are 6 different metrics that are being tracked and ...
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Select Country, Region & City on web
I need to pass this country, region, city selection fields present on an ERP software to cloud web approach. What are the best practice for this cases?
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What should a toolbox look like?
I am making a dashboard application that allows you to execute and debug cronjobs. I give the users the ability to drag and drop elements in an UI. I need to create a toolbox that contains 15 action ...
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How do I make a grid of radio buttons accessible and intuitive?
Bakground
I'm designing a form for recruiters where one question pertains what qualifications are required for the job.
My employer is very serious about accessibility/WCAG so any designs need to ...
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Conveying that a card linked to a gallery has multiple photos instead of one
I'm creating a card view in which each card is linked to a separate view which contains either one photo or multiple photos. The resulting view is not necessarily a gallery, but more of an asset type ...
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What is the term when individual parts of product design and development done well but released product has terrible UX?
It's more prevalent in large corporations, also called something like "teams not talking to each other".
Like when product has great UI but bad integration with hardware that results
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Signaling that an integration is active for the current course in an LMS
I have an LMS webapp for which I created an integration with Google Classroom.
The integration can be enalbed by teachers on a per-course basis from an "integration settings" page of the ...
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How to account for an unknown number of profiles in an icon legend?
So im currently developing a to-do list of sorts which can be filtered by category. Both category and profiles have an unknown number since users can add as many as they want. This means the ...
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Does it make sense to spam the snackbar for information already available elsewhere?
Does it make sense to spam the snackbar for information already available elsewhere? Let's say you have a console dishing out 10-30 lines per seconds and you want to put some of the information on a ...
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Improving map elements to handle multiple permutations of building/site layouts and structures
Looking to redesign the elements on a touchscreen dashboard UI that uses a map to monitor workers in the factory.
The following visual elements (in various combinations) are being used
workers
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Using left, right, select buttons for up/down navigation?
I am currently designing a product which has an lcd screen and three physical buttons that allow for navigation: left, right and select. Currently, this lcd is VERY small so I have limited screen ...
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What is the minimum size for a profile picture when used somewhere other than the profile page?
I am creating an app and want to know the recommended minimum size for profile pictures when their picture is used to show that they are assigned to something. I wanted to do something similar to ...
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In a large list, should the filter and search be combined or separated?
I am dealing with a large list of items which can be filtered as well as searched. For the user, I think it would be better for the user if search was a global search for every list item, but I am not ...
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Two hamburger Menu Bars
The issue is having two hamburger menu bars.
Would burger menu combined with tabs be better suited for this menu section.
Menu bar #1 appears when user logs in.
Menu bar #2 is for all customers (...
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Options for "Cancel this operation?" are "Cancel" and "Yes"; what would be better wording for customers in a hurry?
I tried to buy a train ticket from a vending machine yesterday in a hurry and had some difficulty navigating the English menus (Chinese is the default language). I was trying to back up one step, but ...
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2 segmented controls on same level?
I am designing an interface for sending sms messages
One side is a form to enter data, and next there is a preview of a phone
The user can select to view the platform and also to choose if to see ...
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Using videos in a personal web-site, how good of an UX is that?
I've had this idea for my personal web-site that I'm really wondering what the experts of UX and design feel here think about
I really enjoy the high-end web-sites that have a video playing on the ...
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Are software filters ambigous?
In the physical world filters can filter something and:
A) I'm interested in what goes through, what is not filtered out:
air/water/coffee/oil/..., signals in electronics, light in photography, etc. ...
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I have a list of profile pictures where you can select from a default list and also add your own image. How do I let the user delete the custom image?
So I have a list of default profile images (colors) that the user can select from. They also have the option to add their own image to the existing list. Its a fairly easy process to add an image to ...
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Show and hide button after generating
When a client clicks the Generate receipt to get a receipt, what would be better UX? Hide the button after the receipt becomes available or continue to show the button after the receipt becomes ...
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Why does macOS default to not allowing tab to focus on buttons?
I know I can turn it on and also use the OptionTab but I was wondering why they would use that as the default in the first place. There was an article about it from 2014 but has been updated over ...
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Product/market fit - desirability testing
The scenario: Freshening up a consumer app design to see if users feel like it's viscerally the right fit for them. We'd also like to see how the design is performing among competitors in this sense.
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Is there an Interface Hall of Shame and Fame for web design?
There's the Interface Hall of Shame and also the Interface Hall of Fame for desktop UI design. The company that created the site doesn't exist since quite a time. Their site has been archived by ...
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When dealing with a large data list, is it considered bad UX to make the user manually refresh to update the list?
I am dealing with a large list of items right now. For the sake of this question, it will simply show whether a device is online or offline (there is a lot more data, but those items are more static ...
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Pros and Cons of addressing users by their name in Login header links
What are the pros and cons of header Login links with the following message:
Login
Login, [First Name]
I remember reading that addressing users by their first name is overall more friendly and ...
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Calendar displaying 2 months but user has to select only 1 day
I'm designing a desktop form where users have to select 1 day from a calendar. It's a reservation process for restaurants.
I've been suggested to use an existing calendar component that shows 2 months ...
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Choose Vertical or Horizontal Menus with my application
Hi everyone, My application is having information architecture like image, I am deciding between horizontal navigation and vertical navigation. I feel using vertical navigation would be better in this ...
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Select all with filterable list of items
we are trying to build a pretty typical filter for a list of items (in a Mobile app) which does also allow "Select All" for that particular filter category. The added issue we have though is ...
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Dropdown in navigation or modal for log in/register?
We've noticed on our website that there's no 'quick access' to users accounts, or to know if they are logged in or not. So I've designed:
A dropdown from the my account header in the navigation with ...
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Going from modal to modal, close first modal?
I'm creating an event page that has a map with pins that you can click to view events. When you click a pin, a modal opens that shows all the information about the event, including the address which ...
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